Conquering the Alpha (BxB) - Werewolf Story

Chapter 97: Es Por Ti

SKYLAR

I have never been so scared in my entire life.

They say that when you are dying, your life flashes before your eyes. You relive your entire life story until you perish. That's it. However, that is NOT what happened to me.

When I was outside on the patio, sulking from having to walk back to the tower, a thunderous noise frightened us before another avalanche hit us, bystanders. All I remember from that moment was Jake screaming my name, worried sick about me, while I was buried under a mountain of snow.

At that moment, I did not see the life I had so far. On the contrary, I saw what I didn't get to live. I saw myself claiming Jake at the end of the school year. I saw him and I making love for the first time, I saw our entire lives together that I would never get to have because I would be dead.

In all honesty, that hurt me the most. Just to think that I wouldn't be there for any of these things shook me to my core. I had to survive for his sake, for our life together. Though it wasn't easy, I had to pull through for the sake of the love of my life.

In ancient times - though some packs still did these as early as four decades ago - there was a ritual for any aspiring Alpha of the pack. On the day that he turned 18, there was a ceremony where all his potential mates were gathered in one place, along with most of the pack in general if it was possible, and several distinguished guests, for his ascension ceremony.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard me correctly. On the day that the aspiring Alpha turned 18, his ascension ceremony took place. No matter what day of the week it fell on, that boy or girl would ascend as the new Alpha of the pack.

However, he would have to find his mate first. On that occasion, he would have to walk through the crowd of teenagers of his range. You could only be mated to someone up to two years older or younger than you, though if they are not at least 17, you couldn't discover them as your mate — and find that special someone.

Once that happened with the entire pack as witnesses, he and his mate would have the ascension ceremony where they would be effectively sworn in as the new Alpha couple of the pack. Their choice of Beta would also be sworn in his new position.

After the ceremony was concluded, he would have to face the toughest part yet. Anyone among his pack members could challenge the new Alpha for the position in a fight to the death. Essentially, the young Alpha could be killed even before he had the chance to complete the bond with his fated mate.

Drawing a parallel, it was almost what happened to Bidziil. Remember him? The legendary Indigenous warrior who got mated to the Alpha of the most feared pack in the South? He was challenged by every single one of the warriors under the Alpha's command. Those who he did not kill, he bested in single combat.

That is what I felt when I thought I was going to die. I wouldn't have the chance to be properly intimate with my Omega, but not only that, I wouldn't have any chance to do all the things I want to do with him. Any of the milestones someone in my position is thought to have, I wouldn't get to do, to have with him.

No ascension ceremony, no graduation of any kind, no family of my own, no leading my pack, not becoming an uncle, nothing. I would have nothing to show for, and that killed me. I am far too young to die, not to mention what that would do to my family, my pack.

I am my father's only Alpha heir, so he would have to scramble to select another person as his successor — someone who would not be his own flesh and blood, which has never happened in the history of our pack. I am sure anyone can see now how problematic that would be for the most powerful werewolf dynasty in America.